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Chickens: Creating a Dual Purpose UK Easter Egger Flock – Part 2

07/05/2018 By The Seasonal Table 1 Comment

This is part two of the story of how we created our dual purpose meat and coloured egg laying flock here on the smallholding. You can read part 1 here. After a lot of research, we settled on four main breeds that we wanted to keep to form the base of our flock.

Chickens: Creating a Dual-Purpose UK Easter Egger Flock – Part 1

23/03/2018 By The Seasonal Table 2 Comments

We came up with a chicken-keeping plan several years ago, which we have been working on here on the smallholding ever since. Our ultimate aim was to create a happy, free-ranging and organic flock that lays a multicoloured array of eggs and produces some of the finest meat we have ever tasted. This is the…